#I want to install a win 10 hard drive to a computer already using a win 11 ssd. Will this work?

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strong stone
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here’s some pictures although I don’t believe that they are relevant

prisma temple
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You just need to connect the HDD via SATA and it should just work

strong stone
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Bet

strong stone
prisma temple
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SATA is still SATA

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should just work

strong stone
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W

prisma temple
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make sure you have both the SATA power cable and SATA Data cable

strong stone
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thank you my guy, yea I got both

analog blaze
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id remove the m.2 so you dont have a dual boot issue

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or whatever type of ssd

strong stone
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so remove m.2 put hard drive in then boot then instal ssd?

analog blaze
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wait what what?

strong stone
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idk lmao

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walk me through🙏

analog blaze
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no, remove whatever has your windows 11 install on it, so the mb doesnt get angry you have two windows installs

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and then move the files off your windows 10 drive, onto whateve rother drive

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and then reinstall windows 11 install

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eerrrr put windows 11 drive back* dont actually have too reinstall windows..

strong stone
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wait so do I need another hard drive to move files to??

analog blaze
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do..you only have 2? one with the windows 11 and one with the 10?

strong stone
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yeah the ssd has 11 the hard drive has 10

analog blaze
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if so no? you can just put the 10 in, boot into the 10 drive if you want to change your boot order, and then move the files to the 11 drive its just...

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some motherboards dont like that

strong stone
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oh okay I got u

analog blaze
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it would be easier to take an external drive you could borrow from someone, slap the stuff on there

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and then transfer back to the windows 11 when u are done

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so you dont have to fight boot orders

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or piss off the mb with said orders

strong stone
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Ight bet

ornate tinsel
strong stone
# ornate tinsel were you able to get it?

okay sorry for the wait, I just finished setting it up, I’m able to access the hard drive just fine now. Right now I’m booting from the hard drive just to clear space and the only issue now is that the disk usage for the drive is at 100%. I’m not sure why this is happening.

ornate tinsel
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maybe since its from an old system its not working properly

strong stone
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I have an ssd and now a hard drive plugged in. I went into bios and booted from the hard drive instead. Hopefully that’s not too confusing

strong stone
ornate tinsel
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oh hard drive is probably just old then, hard drives can fail mechanically

strong stone
strong stone
ornate tinsel
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not as common on ssd's

strong stone
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is running at 100% disk gonna be a bad thing you think?

ornate tinsel
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hm can i see the hard drive?

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i wana know which one it is

strong stone
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like physically a picture of it? or software wise?

ornate tinsel
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you can send it physically

strong stone
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Ight

ornate tinsel
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oh yeah toshiba too its probably going to be at 100%

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even if you format it

strong stone
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lmao damn

ornate tinsel
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but you could try

strong stone
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format?

ornate tinsel
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what do you plan on doing wiht this old drive?

strong stone
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just having it as a access point for files to bring over to my ssd

ornate tinsel
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access point?

strong stone
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i think it would be nice too to have it as a separate spot to install things to as well like things that don’t need to load as fast or a file dump

strong stone
ornate tinsel
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oh okay i wouldnt recommend it on that drive

strong stone
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ight

ornate tinsel
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i would honestly just backup any important files before it fails

strong stone
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bet I’ll do that now

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thank you for your help btw man